Tag Archives: sentiment

What was left

Posted on April 14, 2019 by pinklightsabre

What was left in Charlotte’s bowl wasn’t worth saving. But I ate it on principle, so it wouldn’t go to waste. And there was an analogy in that, to going back to my hometown for our annual visit, gumming the … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, parenting, writing | Tagged aging, childhood memories, creative nonfiction, family, mid-life crisis, sentiment, sentimentality, William Pearse writer | 15 Comments

Regret

Posted on March 12, 2019 by pinklightsabre

I imagined the house quiet, after they’d left. I could hear the memory of their voices as they were now, an echo. I could feel my heart pull in the way a hand contracts to a fist, the way a … Continue reading →

Posted in parenting, poetry, prose, writing | Tagged aging, creative nonfiction, mid-life crisis, mindfulness, nostalgia, parenting, prose, sentiment, William Pearse writer | 7 Comments

Weights

Posted on February 28, 2019 by pinklightsabre

At this time of day, this time of year, the butterfly glows gold in the window of our den it’s hung by chains, framed, with dust in the old border and cobwebs strung to the window’s edge the butterfly is … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry, writing | Tagged #amwriting, family, nostalgia, poem, poetry, sentiment, William Pearse writer | 3 Comments

Posted on November 22, 2018 by pinklightsabre

November 22, 2018 (Thanksgiving). I went back in time to the chauffeur’s flat, that place we stayed in a remote corner of Scotland one Thanksgiving, unlike any other. Near some small, port town on the coast by the ferries over … Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir, prose, writing | Tagged autumn poetry, creative nonfiction, identity, journal writing, mid-life crisis, nostalgia, parenting, sentiment, stream-of-consciousness, travel, William Pearse writer | 23 Comments

Poem | ‘The remains’

Posted on November 11, 2018 by pinklightsabre

How dim the light in the morning through the last brown leaves And the look of the limbs curled inwards, slumped low How soft the heater blows those long, solemn notes Like the sound of a car scraping down an … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry, writing | Tagged pacific northwest, poem, poetry, prose, sentiment, spirituality, William Pearse writer | 8 Comments

‘Wax and wane’

Posted on October 30, 2018 by pinklightsabre

By the time we got to the end of October I was done with it. The Halloween decals on the windows, the witches and skulls…it seemed to go on forever, like it should have been over by now. The skeleton … Continue reading →

Posted in death, writing | Tagged aging, Cocteau Twins, death, Halloween, journal writing, Memoir, mid-life crisis, prose, Scotland, sentiment, short form, stream-of-consciousness, William Pearse writer | 14 Comments

The same deep water as you

Posted on October 27, 2018 by pinklightsabre

We went back to the old elementary school, Charlotte’s last year, for the annual Halloween bash. Dawn and I stood in the playground feeling tired and out of sorts, trying to make out the identities of kids running by as … Continue reading →

Posted in identity, Memoir, writing | Tagged aging, Halloween, identity, LGBT, marriage equality, mid-life crisis, nostalgia, parenting, Scotland, sentiment, The Cure, William Pearse writer | 17 Comments